Duty Of Care: Its Implications To The Medical Profession In Nigeria

DUTY OF CARE: ITS IMPLICATIONS TO THE  MEDICAL PROFESSION IN NIGERIA CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION Medical practice has attained sufficient status to the extent that principles of law that are relevant to Medical Practice can now be examined under the concept of Medical Law. Medical law can therefore be described as the branch of law dealing with Medical Practice or the Medical Profession.1 The functions of Medical Law therefore relates to identification of  issues relating to or regulating the practice of Medicine 2. The essence of Medical Law or the kind of condu…